Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love - it's a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don't expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.